If a glass of plonk is your limit after a long day at the office, then you’d better not read on, because a tipple at your desk is now much easier, thanks to the fabulous French invention that is the USB Wine Tap.
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I agree with Rob

There's got to be some potential there, i mean think how much more pissed you could get if all you had to do to refill your glass was push a button on a usb device linked to, maybe a box rather than a bottle, but still, i'd get one.

Only on MAC and Windows

@c price

My comment was from having dealt with people on a daily basis that would buy this thing than scream at me when it didn't work just because they saw a video of it working on the internet, and would not listen to any rational explanation.

USBeer?

What I also find hilarious is that it's called USBWine, not USBVin - isn't there a law prohibiting the use of languages other than French in the names of products? (so it really should be BSU Vin - vin du bus seriel universel, although not very sure about the frenchiness of the term "bus").

Bad Example

le froggie

"You mean that you can't download wine from the internet?"

ask linux people they do it all the time

- isn't there a law prohibiting the use of languages other than French in the names of products?

They try to balance it so that not to many words from a foreign language will dilute the purist language. That's a losing battle since so mane new tech products have English names that the were just giving them a french pronunciation such as le computor , in stead of computer. Recently they have even given that up.

I suppose the whisk(e)y tap ...

Of course you'd say it is fake!

You bastards don't even accept global warming is true!

I think there is a conspiracy here. You guys all have shares in the beverage market and don't want to see them undercut by this cool invention. No! You'd rather just dis this product without researching the facts. You're just a bunch of crybabies wishing you had invented this. Well guess what buddy the Truth is out. You can't stop progress even if you try.

I think it should also come in a British version that serves piss warm beer. Just run the beer through the CPU cooling to warm it up.

Coffee plugin

If only

Actually...

As I explained on another forum when this topic was brought up...

After researching this, I've found that it's not a hoax, although there's more to it than meets the eye:

As well as the USB adapter, your computer needs to meet the Bluetooth V3.01 specification (not the traditional bluetooth) because the bandwidth provided by bluetooth 3.01 has sufficient bandwidth to manipulate the molecules of the "base liquid" (a "programmable" juice if you will) supplied by the manufacturers. You also need to attach a pump for the aforementioned base liquid to your computer, which needs to be plugged into the mains.

Although this technology is revolutionary, there hasn't been a "fanfare" release, as the manufacturers are trying to come up with anti-copying technology, due to already being under threat from "drink piracy". There are many P2P networks out there where the users are illegally trading wines and other usb-based alchoholic drinks. These programmes go by such names as GrapeTorrent, WineWire and BeerShare.